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I've done private money lending in the past with both contracts and promissory notes. If you're a private money lender how do you protect yourself while lending? What legal documentation do you use? How do you vet you...
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Hey there,Simple question, I had the property management have the tenant responsible for water and sewer. They are now behind >$300.Is this a bill that can come back and attempted to be collected from me? Or is th...
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Hello BP! My name is Rajiv Patel and while I’ve been on BP for a few months doing my HW, this is my first stab at posting on BP. Jumping into real estate as a new investor, my immediate goal is to focus on cash flow w...
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I have actually been here before as a diff user but i deleted the mail account so had to creat a new account. OOPS haha
anyways from nor cal bay area.
recently divorced single father. I have been working very hard t...
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Hi all - I've been learning all I can by looking at houses most weekends, reading books,and listening to podcasts for a few months now and am looking to do my first deal in 2016. I signed up for BP because I realize ...
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Have you ever had a tenant that just won't leave? I'm already down 3 months rent, the tenant has been officially ordered evicted, and they won't leave without the sheriff going down there with my PM and physically rem...
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I bought a property two years ago in NC through a turnkey investment operation. They buy, rehab, and sell with tenant in place and then manage the property. Everything went well until September last year, when the ren...